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Country Life UK
In the footsteps of giants
After decades of thoughtful restoration, the gardens at Folly Farm offer a masterclass in maintaining an historic garden and simultaneously celebrating the best in contemporary planting, finds Tiffany Daneff
9 min |
May 11, 2022
Country Life UK
Strawberries taste good
A Chardin still life makes a record price in a good week for French and Italian art
4 min |
April 20, 2022
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Tradition and modernity
The imaginative extension of a farmhouse in the spirit of Lutyens and the Arts-and-Crafts Movement has created a delightful and humane family home, Jeremy Musson reports
7 min |
April 20, 2022
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
Britain's greatest masterpieces
4 min |
May 11, 2022
Country Life UK
Do you believe in cod?
Greedy and gormless, this is no sexy fish, but, on the plate, perfectly pearlescent cod is easily the equal of halibut or Dover sole, believes Tom Parker Bowles
4 min |
May 11, 2022
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Loyal toasts
Friends of COUNTRY LIFE tell Katy Birchall why they enjoy the magazine, from the riddle to rare breeds, fine architecture to Tottering-by-Gently
9 min |
May 11, 2022
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Another brick in the wall
One brick might be a humble entity, but put many in the right hands and you have a work of art. Jack Watkins examines the history of this seemingly simple building material
4 min |
May 11, 2022
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A front-row seat
COUNTRY LIFE has been commenting on the state of the nation for 125 years. Sometimes, the past seems wholly removed, but there are moments when it all seems startlingly familiar
7 min |
May 11, 2022
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A mixture of expertise and clap trap
Our fishing correspondent considers how angling-from monkey climbers to how to tie a helicopter rig-has developed in the past 125 years
4 min |
May 11, 2022
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A castle and palace conjoined
One of the outstanding palaces of Baroque Europe was planned as both a residence and national monument. John Goodall revisits this extraordinary building
8 min |
May 11, 2022
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Interiors The designer's room
Dark-green cabinets, crisp white walls and wooden beams combine to create the ideal kitchen for a large family
1 min |
April 27, 2022
Country Life UK
Dyeing to help
IT often feels as if responsibility for saving the planet falls heavily on the shoulders of gardeners.
4 min |
April 27, 2022
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Gardening on the edge
The gardens of Mansard House, Bardwell, Suffolk The home of Tom and Mary Hoblyn Catharine Howard visits the garden of an award-winning Chelsea designer, who uses it as his plant laboratory
6 min |
April 27, 2022
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'How lovely are the things you help us to perceive'
Pictures should 'fill a man's soul with admiration and sheer joy, Sir Alfred Munnings famously said. Octavia Pollock charts his eventful life and argues that he perhaps does not receive the credit he deserves for the enjoyment his varied and vivid work has brought
6 min |
April 27, 2022
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364 vs Australia, The Oval, 1938
IN 1997, The Times listed the 100 Greatest Cricketers of All Time, chosen by the long-serving cricket correspondent and former Wisden editor John Woodcock.
4 min |
April 27, 2022
Country Life UK
A love letter to Norfolk
Dinky market towns and seal-strewn beaches? Local opinions, Sunday drives, Blackpool-of-the-East and early churches, this is novelist D. J. Taylor's Norfolk and he wouldn't want to live anywhere else
6 min |
April 27, 2022
Country Life UK
A plum role
Jonathan Spain considers the Cambridge gage, a variant of our old English greengage, the story of which ranges from the Caucasus Mountains to the Chivers jam factory in Histon Cambridgeshire
3 min |
April 27, 2022
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On the wings of a turtle dove
Dainty, smaller and darker than its collared cousin, the turtle dove is in danger of dying out, but not if a new Norfolk-based trust has anything to do with it
6 min |
April 27, 2022
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And they all lived together in a little crooked house
The Crooked House of nursery-rhyme fame has been through many incarnations in the past 600 years. Flora Watkins travels to the enchanting village of Lavenham, Suffolk, to meet its latest custodians
6 min |
April 27, 2022
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Birds in their little nests agree
As he repairs a fence that's gone floppy thanks to the cattle rubbing against it, John Lewis-Stempel pauses on a warm April morning to admire all the birds busily building and lining their nests with cow hair
4 min |
April 27, 2022
Country Life UK
Making spaces
There's an alchemy to creating houses that don't only function perfectly, but look beautiful, too
3 min |
April 27, 2022
Country Life UK
The serene interior
Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire The home of William and Mercedes Bevan | The remodeling of an Elizabethan house by an Edwardian industrialist created superb interiors in the aesthetic of 17th-century Dutch art
9 min |
April 27, 2022
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The best of the East
Four newly launched properties make East Anglia ever more alluring
5 min |
April 27, 2022
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Мар of heaven
A superb Chinese chart takes centre stage in New York and an artist shows that ‘melancholy is underrated'
4 min |
April 27, 2022
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There's pickle in the jar
Friend of the cheese sandwich and bastion of the ploughman's lunch, Branston Pickle has graced our cupboards for a century
3 min |
April 27, 2022
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THE GOLDEN MILE
A Government-backed scheme to pedestrianise parts of The Strand is throwing light on the road's gilded history
5 min |
May 04, 2022
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We are the champions
British eventing is on the crest of a wave, with titles and gold medals galore, and you can see those stars in action on home ground at Badminton Horse Trials this weekend, promises Kate Green
6 min |
May 04, 2022
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THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO... Amy Corbin
The restaurateur talks to Flora Watkins about opening on the 'wrong' side of Peckham and prawn cocktails at The Wolseley
3 min |
May 04, 2022
Country Life UK
Wild about the garden
The garden of Ready Token House, Gloucestershire The home of Mark and Tabitha Mayall Retaining the Arts-and-Crafts elements of a 1920s garden, the owners have added a sympathetic new terrace, as well as returning the surrounding fields to meadow
5 min |
May 04, 2022
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Walk another day
Some of the James Bond franchise's most famous scenes have been captured around the capital, discovers Carla Passino
7 min |